Midst Quotes

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

We were in Little Rock. We were assessing a very important issue. In the midst of our discussions, we were receiving urgent inquiries from The Washington Post asking about interviews.

Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control.

When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

On this day there was soon wind enough and to spare. The same might have been said of the sea. The Spray was in the midst of the turbulent Gulf Stream itself. She was jumping like a porpoise over the uneasy waves.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.

Let us cherish the hope that the day is not far distant when we will be in the midst of this next adventure.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

Israel would not do that, both because we cannot afford to be accused by the world of aggression and because we cannot, for security and social reasons, absorb in our midst a substantial Arab population.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.